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Language Identifiers

05/31/2018

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A language identifier is a standard international numeric abbreviation for the language in a country or geographical region. Each language has a unique language identifier (data type LANGID), a 16-bit value that consists of a primary language identifier and a sublanguage identifier. For details of language identifiers, see Language Identifier Constants and Strings.

A language identifier is constructed using the MAKELANGID macro. The following illustration shows the format of the bits in a language identifier.